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History of Contemporary Worlds

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1: Studying and Periodising the Political History of the XX-XXI Century
Why do we study history,
Why do leaders reference history ...,
Lessons of history
12  cards
2: Two World Wars, Total Violence and The Production of A New World Order
Main causes of wwi structural fac...,
Main causes of wwi contingency an...,
Main causes of wwi the triple sta...
21  cards
3: The Many Wars of the Cold War
Metaphor of the cold war and what...,
Fundamental elements of the cold war,
Unquestioned superiority of the us
14  cards
4: Contemporary Wars from Iraq (1991) to Iraq (2003)
End of the cold war new peace or ...,
First gulf war as a key watershed,
Main contradictions of the first ...
10  cards
Readings
What s global history sebastian c...,
International history the cultura...,
What is global history now jeremy...
12  cards
5: 1929 - Crisis of Capitalism, Crisis of Democracy
Main causes of the economic colla...,
The us as a non hegemonic hegemon...,
Us reaction to 1929 crisis
16  cards
6: The Crisis and Collapse of the Modern Imperial Order
How was an imperial order organis...,
How was an imperial order organis...,
Implications of the crisis of an ...
17  cards
7: 1971 - The Implosion of the Bretton Woods Order and The Crisis of Postwar "Embedded Liberalism"
Why was the cold war also an econ...,
Why was the lesson of the 1930s s...,
Main features of the us led post ...
15  cards
8: Non-State Actors - The Case of the Environment
What do we mean by territoriality,
Definitions of anthropocene,
What do we mean by the anthropocene
14  cards
9: Non-State Actors - The Case of HR
Definition of hr,
Why was there a brief hr moment d...,
Hr in 1941 1950
10  cards
10: The AIDS/HIV Global Epidemic
Definition of epidemic,
Definition of pandemic,
Chronology of the aids hiv global...
9  cards
11: US Power, The American Century and Its End
Where did the american century co...,
What are the key elements of the ...,
Three pillars of us hegemony
9  cards
12: The Asian Century?
What were the main dynamics traje...,
2 key events of the early cold wa...,
The korean war as an internationa...
18  cards
Readings Final
5 1929 crisis of capitalism and c...,
6 crisis and collapse of the mode...,
7 bw and the collapse of embedded...
8  cards

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